Samsung Electronics plans to release a limited volume of purple Galaxy S20 smartphones devoted to South Korea’s top boyband BTS on July 9, according to news reports on Thursday. The purple color symbolizes BTS and its fan club Army. The anniversary of the day the fan club was officially named in 2013 falls on July 9. A video clip that hinted at the launch of the BTS edition Galaxy S20 was posted on Twitter and Instagram last week. The video delivered the message, “Find your

Samsung Electronics will support 28 science and technology projects by providing 38.85 billion won ($31.88 million) this year, the tech giant said Thursday. The company has selected 14 projects in basic science, eight in materials science and six in the information communications technology sector to offer its funds. Samsung has provided a total of 758.9 billion won for 589 research and development projects in the three sectors since 2013 as part of corporate social responsibility. This ye

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Around 20 CEOs of Samsung Electronics and its affiliates on Monday attended a lecture by the head of the presidential council on economic, social and labor affairs, according to the company. The South Korean tech giant invited Moon Sung-hyun, chairperson of the presidential Economic, Social and Labor Council, and arranged a special lecture for the leaders of affiliates, including Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kim Ki-nam, Samsung C&T CEO Lee Young-ho and Samsung Life Insurance CEO Jeon

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Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics -- the two biggest tech firms in South Korea -- are likely to scale back their participation in IFA 2020, amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, according to industry sources Sunday. However, the two firms have not yet finalized their plans to participate in the largest tradeshow for home appliances in Europe, slated for September. The IFA 2020 will be held onsite from Sept. 3-5 at the Messe Berlin exhibition hall as usual, the show’s organizer ann

SK Telecom said Friday it plans to develop an artificial intelligence-based post-production platform to help local firms to export cultural content products abroad. The South Korean telecommunications firm said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with local post-production firm New ID to collaborate on the project. “The latest partnership deal will meet increased foreign demand for Korea’s cultural productions,” the company said. “The two companies expect the

Naver on Thursday said that it plans to make its US-based unit Webtoon Entertainment the head office for online cartoon businesses. The latest restructuring plan comes amid the South Korean internet giant’s efforts to expand its online cartoon business abroad. As part of the plan, California-based Webtoon Entertainment will purchase all stocks of Line Digital Frontier, the company’s Japanese internet cartoon unit. It will cost the US unit some 232 billion won ($187 million). The t

SK Broadband said Thursday it has launched children-targeted “ZEM Kids” content on B tv Cable, the new name of Tbroad cable television that has been merged with the operator last month. ZEM Kids is a self-learning content aimed for children from toddlers to elementary school students. The content carries some 4,000 programs that include story-telling, English classes and sessions for parents. The story-telling program, for instance, has over 350 story options for kids aged 3 and u

Samsung Electronics said Friday it has expanded its mobile device-based health platform to televisions as demand for in-home fitness content and services is growing in the wake of the global pandemic. The Samsung Health app is now available on the company’s smart TVs launched this year in South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom. The app is designed as a wellness management platform that enables users to customize their personal health journeys by connecting them to premi

South Korean ICT company specializing in smart livestock health management uLikeKorea said Wednesday it has successfully developed a COVID-19 body patch system that can monitor symptoms, activity level and location related to the virus in real-time. According to uLikeKorea, the system was made with non-toxic and environmentally friendly materials that can be attached to the chest. It can detect temperature, pulse, activity level and location in real-time, it said. “ULikeKorea used the

South Korea’s three major telecommunications firms have submitted nonbinding indicative offers to acquire Hyundai HCN, the nation’s fifth-largest cable TV operator owned by Hyundai Department Store Group, according to industry sources Wednesday. The three local firms -- KT, SK Telecom and LG Uplus -- are expected to compete for acquiring the cable TV operator, which has a 4 percent market share with 1.3 million subscribers. The cable TV unit’s total revenue last year was 292

Toss Lab, the maker of innovative collaboration tool JANDI, has established itself at the top of South Korea’s growing work communication platform market. The fledgling company, in just six years, has managed to go head-on with not only domestic competitors such as Flow and Collabee but also global companies like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Ironically, however, these direct competitors offer far less of a challenge than that of the immensely popular messenger service KakaoTalk, in JANDI

Hanwha Techwin announced Wednesday the launch of the world’s first 8K closed-circuit TVs, featuring the highest resolution. The South Korean surveillance solution provider said it will roll out the CCTVs with 8K network camera featuring 33 million pixels. The 8K CCTVs provide images that are four times clearer than those of current 4K CCTVs, the company said. It enables recognition of a person sitting about 150 meters away in a baseball stadium, the firm explained. It is possible to